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Agreed I was hoping for Bernie as well, but independent seems much better that this point in 2024, though Kamala is much better than Joe. Now, none of the VPs look enticing enough for me though.
While there is a dearth of Conservative Democrats (though there’s still a few roaming around) in congress, the majority of them are center-right to center left, not the “radical liberals” the populist right-wing would have us believe.
George Herbert Walker Bush abandoned conservatism (he also supported NAFTA)and was primaried by Pat Buchanan (who I also voted for). That started much of the frustration between the "country club" Republicans, and the voters they betrayed.
Whew, I was not around at the time. NAFTA trade agreement is still better than some of the stuff we have now, so even Republicans of the 1990s would be much better than today's. I would have to say that the Tea Party ruined the GOP in the early 2010s, or Newt and Rush at the turn of the millennium.
Bush (the greater) wasn’t “primaried” by Buchanan, (except for the “challenge”), Bush carried every election and only “lost” the Iowa caucuses.
The thing is, there are two components to this conservative/liberal thing. One is the traditional issues of the economy and foreign policy. The other is all the sex stuff. A traditional conservative may be liberal on the sex stuff, or vice-versa.
I guess you hope that this is the case.
That is true. There are multiple elements to this. In fact, there are gay Trumpers apparently. I prefer conservative on the sex stuff, and more left to moderate on the economy, and more liberal on the environment, but not too liberal. For foreign policy, we might want to back off of some wars.
Not to mention Trump and his allies have spent about 6 years taking all measures (including ginning up accusations with the help of foreign operatives) to dig up, create, and promote negative ideas about Biden. They have barely spent two weeks trying to attack her. (Hillary had almost a quarter century of being the attack target of the right political/media machine on election day 2016.)
Yep.
VPs are more "potential" to finally be in charge than "burdened" by the policies of the administration.
Harris might pick her VP in the next week or so (7 days from now).
